Maine Learning Results
Content Area: Social Studies
Standard: E. History
Standard: E1 historical knowledge, concepts, themes, and patterns
Grade Level Span: Grade 9-diploma WWII and Post-war United States 1939-1961
Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the United States and world history including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals and institutions in the world.
Performance Indicators: B,C,D
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•WWII altered how the world looks at itself and each other.
•WWII affected Communities in the world
•WWII had specific impacts on political processes and developments.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How did WWII shift world view?
•How were regional communities affected by WWII?
•Why were political processes and developments affected by WWII?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•Important People Hitler, Truman, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hirohito, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek, Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower
•Important Events
Normandy, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Bastogne, Giulino di Mezzagra, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rape of Nanking, sino-japanese war, soviet union, Poland, Austria, England, Israel, Afrika Korps, ardennes, Auschwitz, the battle of Britain, the battle of the bulge, Berlin, concentration camps, gestapo, Guadalcanal, Hitler youth, holocaust, shoah, Leningrad, Sudetenland, Manhattan project, Marina islands, battle of midway, Okinawa, Warsaw ghetto, Yalta conference, atomic bomb, Japanese internment, Potsdam conference, German instrument of surrender, Japanese instrument of surrender, Italian instrument of surrender
•Vocabulary
Allies, Axis, The Big Three, Fascism, Totalitarian, Nazi, U-Boat, D-Day, V.E. Day, V.J. Day, democracy, socialism, communism, proportional representation, monarchy, imperialism, people to people relations
•Demonstrate political processes of different nations
•Document world views of Post WWII
•Exhibit how communities Changed
•Compare and contrast pre and post political processes of axis nations.
•Relate to community members after WWII
•Realize how they saw the world as a result of WWII
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: Social Studies
Standard: E. History
Standard: E1 historical knowledge, concepts, themes, and patterns
Grade Level Span: Grade 9-diploma WWII and Post-war United States 1939-1961
Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the United States and world history including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals and institutions in the world.
Performance Indicators: B,C,D
What understandings are desired?
•WWII affected Communities in the world
•WWII had specific impacts on political processes and developments.
What essential questions will be considered?
•How were regional communities affected by WWII?
•Why were political processes and developments affected by WWII?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Hitler, Truman, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hirohito, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek, Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower
•Important Events
Normandy, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Bastogne, Giulino di Mezzagra, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rape of Nanking, sino-japanese war, soviet union, Poland, Austria, England, Israel, Afrika Korps, ardennes, Auschwitz, the battle of Britain, the battle of the bulge, Berlin, concentration camps, gestapo, Guadalcanal, Hitler youth, holocaust, shoah, Leningrad, Sudetenland, Manhattan project, Marina islands, battle of midway, Okinawa, Warsaw ghetto, Yalta conference, atomic bomb, Japanese internment, Potsdam conference, German instrument of surrender, Japanese instrument of surrender, Italian instrument of surrender
•Vocabulary
Allies, Axis, The Big Three, Fascism, Totalitarian, Nazi, U-Boat, D-Day, V.E. Day, V.J. Day, democracy, socialism, communism, proportional representation, monarchy, imperialism, people to people relations
•Document world views of Post WWII
•Exhibit how communities Changed
•Compare and contrast pre and post political processes of axis nations.
•Relate to community members after WWII
•Realize how they saw the world as a result of WWII
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.